00:00 What Are Your Summer Break Plans?

01:04 Special Visitors and Their Impact

03:04 Exploring Texas with Friends

03:51 Daily Bible Reading: 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21-22

04:13 Understanding David's Census and Its Consequences

06:26 Theological Insights and Reflections

12:22 David's Repentance and God's Mercy

15:08 The Temple Mount and Its Significance

16:33 Psalm 30: A Dedication Song

17:17 Closing Thoughts and Prayer

17:55 Outro

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition of

the Daily Bible Podcast, how you, we

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are looking at the end of the, another

week end of school for most people.

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So congrats to all of the kiddos out

there and buckle up to all the parents

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out there because it's summer break.

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That's right.

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I.

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It's gonna be good.

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Just laying out on that one.

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You cleaned up that gap thing.

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Thought I thought you

were gonna say things.

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Yeah, no, I, waiting for you to say stuff.

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You're a parent too.

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I thought you might chime

in and I am a parent.

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You are parent.

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I'm excited to have my kids

home, so I'm not mad about that.

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Yeah, I know.

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The time is short and my time with

them will eventually be over and

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I'll be missing all these summer

vacations with them, even though

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it's a bit harder to go to work.

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I'll admit that.

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Yep.

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When I have to drive away and

everyone's at home and they're gonna

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go off and do things, and Kristen's

oh, we're gonna go play at the, we're

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gonna to the park, or we're gonna go

to this place or that place today.

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And I thought, oh, splash pad.

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You like the splash pad?

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Sorry.

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Have I do love I'd like

to be with them at least.

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Not Splash Pad myself.

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I don't know.

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If the, I guess it depends on the

weather and shoving little kids outta

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the way to get to the sprinklers.

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My turn kid.

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But you won't have to for the first

week at least, you're gonna be out

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off at least for the next week, right?

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Yeah.

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We have some friends coming

from outta town from California.

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Okay.

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So at least for half of the time we'll

be doing all sorts of things with them.

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Cool.

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And I'm not entirely sure what

we're gonna be doing just yet.

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We're trying to still

figure out some of that.

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So for the first half of the week,

we'll have time to, I don't know,

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get stuff done that we don't feel

like we have time to do right now.

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I get the car in the shop.

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So if if that goes well, we might

be able to drive a little bit.

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We'll see how that goes.

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So yeah it's it, it's all

planned, at least in my mind.

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It's all the pieces are there.

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So I'm not sure if there's gonna

be anything that I might come

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back and I might be more tired.

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That's a possibility.

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Yeah.

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I'm not gonna be rested.

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We'll see.

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Have you have these people been

out to visit you previously?

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Have they been here before?

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No.

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These people are Okay.

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So it's they're friends.

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In that I, I've known them since,

probably since I was 13 give or take.

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They're so Calvin and Brenda Kelly are.

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Are a family that took me and my

brother in, and they took us back and

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forth to church for several Sundays.

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Took us out to lunch

with them several times.

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These are one of the families

that I really owe a lot of my

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Christianity to because they just

instructed and informed it so deeply.

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And so I got back in touch with Brenda

not too long ago just to check in on

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'em, say, Hey, how you guys doing?

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It's been years.

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And she's Hey, I'd love

to come see you guys.

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We're like, that'd be awesome.

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We'd love that.

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Which is why I took some of the

time off in the first place.

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'cause I thought, oh, that'd be

really cool to see that happen.

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And one thing led to another and

there's complications and I don't

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know if we can make it anymore.

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And now it looks like they're gonna

be able to make it calvin was one of

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my leaders back in, I guess it must've

been middle school, junior high.

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We had this thing in the

charismatic church, the Assemblies

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of God called Royal Rangers.

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Have you ever heard of this thing?

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I've, I have.

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Yeah.

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So it's the equivalent to Boy Scouts.

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They have badges and things like that.

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They have their equivalent Eagle Scout.

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Anyway, he was one of my leaders

and Brenda was one of my, just

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one, one of those people that.

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She's a teacher, was a teacher.

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Anyway, she's retired now, but had

the impact on my life and many other

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people's lives that just stays with you.

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So I'm really excited to, to host

them and excited to spend time with

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them and have my kids meet them too,

because they're so impactful to my life.

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That's great, man.

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That's awesome.

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That is that'll be a good time.

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I was asking that question.

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'cause you've got the

world as your oyster.

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Then you could take 'em out to Fort Worth.

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You could take them.

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Downtown be like, look, this is the X

on the ground where Kennedy was shot,

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and yeah, here's the grassy knoll.

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And yeah, it depends on the

weather, all that stuff.

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Yeah, I remember.

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Yeah, if the weather is a

common, these are Californians.

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That's true.

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So if you take them out in the Texas

humid heat, which is here, they might die.

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Yeah.

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And.

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Even though I've acclimated,

I still don't like it.

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Yeah.

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I'd rather not have it.

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Then take him to the splash pad

and you and I might, you and Calvin

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can shove all the kids outta the

way to get the best features.

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Calvin's a foodie, so I'm gonna need

to find places that are Oh, okay.

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He's a foodie.

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He loves a good meal and so I,

I can only think of barbecue.

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Barbecue's gotta be barbecue.

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Especially if Calvin's whipping out the

the credit card to pay for that mail.

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Yeah, that's, we'll see.

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We'll see.

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Anyways.

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Let's jump into our daily

Bible reading for the day.

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We are in two Samuel 24 and one Chronicles

21 through 22, and then Psalm 30.

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So all that to say, by the way, next

week as you're listening and you're

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gonna wear the Dulcet towns of sounds

of Pastor Rod, he's gonna be outta town.

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So dulcet towns are outta sound,

dulce towns and outta sound.

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Yep.

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He's gonna be away from the office.

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So we're excited for him to get that rest.

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Second Samuel 24, we have David's

census is what the ESV has called this

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because that's what happens in here.

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But we've got a problem and let's just

tackle it right off the bat because

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second Samuel 24 1 says, the anger of

the Lord was kindled against Israel.

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Okay?

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So we can agree on that

across accounts, right?

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But then it says he, which

would be the object there, which

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would be the Lord incited David.

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Now to incite means to provoke or to

cause someone to do something against them

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saying, go and number Israel and Judah.

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Now if we jump over to our other reading

for today, starting in one chronicles.

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21.

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21.

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Yeah, we're gonna find something else.

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It's gonna say then Satan stood

against Israel and incited

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David did number Israel.

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Now.

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We talked about this last year.

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I think we, we talk about it every time

we come across this passage because

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it's worth note and it's noteworthy.

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And so I just wanna double down

on, on what we've covered before.

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But that is the, these two

things appear to contradict.

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Themselves.

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God is not Satan, right?

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Let's all agree on that.

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God and Satan not the same person.

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I feel like I can agree with this.

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Awesome.

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That's good.

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So what do we do here?

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I don't think this needs to cause much

consternation if we've read the Book of

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Job, which in our chronological reading

we've already read the book of Job.

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So if you go to Job and Satan

appears before God and says, Hey.

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God have you considered job?

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Or God says to Satan,

have you considered job?

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And Satan says, does he

fear God for no reason?

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And God says why don't you go

and make his life miserable?

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That's my version, at least the

PSV, the PJ standard version.

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And Satan goes and does just that.

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You could ask the

question, who afflicts job?

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Is it God or is it Satan?

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And the answer would be.

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Yes.

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And that's what we have here.

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Who incited David to number

the people of Israel.

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Is it God or is it Satan?

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And the answer is yes.

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It appears that God allowed Satan to

do this in David's life out of a, an

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extension of his hand of discipline

on the nation of Israel as a whole.

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What's troubling to me

is we don't know why.

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We don't know why God's angry

with Israel at this point other

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than the text says that he was,

that he's angry against Israel.

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And maybe it's a similar situation

to what we read not long ago with the

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crimes of Saul against the Gibeonites.

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God is not a God with a short memory.

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He can remember when when offenses

need to be righted and made right.

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And so perhaps it's something that's even.

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In their past that he's now angry

again over and and he's causing

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David to do this, which then leads

to his hand of discipline on them.

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But Pierre, any, anything else to

say on the variation between two

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Samuel 24 and one Chronicles 21?

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No, just to point out again, that

scripture doesn't have a problem

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that, that we do, we will feel the

tension of these accounts and say,

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man, I wonder how you put these

pieces together when Second Samuel and

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First Chronicles are just asserting

this they're not apologizing for it.

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They're not trying to offer some kind of.

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Some rationale to say, this

is how this works together.

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It's man's choice.

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It's a real choice.

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He's got responsibility, but

God has perfect sovereignty.

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And this is what I love and sometimes

find frustrating about scripture,

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is that it just, this is what it is.

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This is how it is.

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This is the way life works.

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And so I think one of the lessons for

us is that often, and it's not bad to

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ask the questions, but sometimes the

questions can be so confounding for

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us and so difficult and such a brain

twister that for some people, and I'm

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not overstating this at all, I don't

think they can have a crisis of faith.

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And say, how can God do this?

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Scripture says here, this

is in second Samuel 24.

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This is the anger of the Lord.

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He was incited against David and

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It says Satan.

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I think our job as Christians is

to humbly receive both pieces of

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information and say, okay God does

all things without sin because he's

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perfectly righteous and perfectly just,

and scripture itself is infallible.

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It's telling us the

truth of these matters.

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So we have to assume then the way that

God is working is that he is utilizing

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the devil and a sinless way to accomplish

his sinless works and his desires.

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How that works?

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I don't know.

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And we'd have to confess humbly, there's

a lot of things that God does that we

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don't know how he does those things.

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This is part of his point with Job,

as you were just saying, pastor pj,

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when Job was accusing God, God said,

but Job, just take a few minutes here.

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Take a seat.

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Take a seat, son.

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Let me ask you a couple questions.

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You tell me how this works and

I'll tell you how this works.

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And of course, job is left dumbfounded

saying, I'm gonna put my hand

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over mouth because it, I don't.

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I'm speaking outta my place here.

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And I think that's the ultimate

posture we have to take.

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Scripture's telling us the truth.

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We have to take it at face value,

but how we put the pieces together,

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ultimately that's left up to God.

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Yeah.

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And in, in this account, it's

interesting because David knew that

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what he was doing was not right.

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And you say how do you know that?

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Because Joab even knew that what

David was doing was not right.

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Because when David goes and task

job with counting the troops in both

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two Samuel 24 and first Chronicles

21, we read the job protests.

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He says, why do you want me to do this?

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May the Lord grant the king multiple

hundreds, as many as we have

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right now but why are you causing

me to go to number the troops?

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He knew that this was not

something that was right.

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In fact, in the first Chronicles

account in 21 3, it says, why should

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it be the cause of guilt for Israel?

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And joab knew it was wrong.

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Clearly David would've known it was

wrong, and yet he moves forward and Joab

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does it in obedience here to the king.

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Can you talk about what's

wrong about taking a census?

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Because I think a lot of people

would be confused about why counting

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people would be considered sin.

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It's, it comes down to our

trust and our confidence, right?

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As, as we've read in the psalm, some

trust in chariots, some in horses, but

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we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

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You could substitute

chariots and horses for.

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The numbers of troops that we have.

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And so the reason why God didn't want

David to take in account of the number

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of fighting men is he wanted David to

always be mindful of the fact that God was

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the one that was winning the victories.

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God was the one that was

fighting the battles.

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And yes, that was through the troops

that David had, but David's trust

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was not in his numbers as it was.

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The trust that the Philistine kings or

the Ammonite kings or the Assyrian Kings,

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David's trust was a trust in God, that God

was the one that was fighting the battles

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and that was the decisive factor, not

how many thousands of people that he had.

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Which on that note, pastor

Rod you have often brought up

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the discrepancies in numbers.

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And so we have another discrepancy

in numbers here in second Samuel

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24 and first Chronicles 21 as far

as the total numbers in the census.

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And so in second Samuel 24,

we amount to about one point.

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3 million roughly there in one

Chronicles 21, we amount to 1.1

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million and then it says, and 470,000.

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Who drew the sword?

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Any thoughts on how we resolve these

discrepancies between these two numbers

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that are given here with this same census?

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Yeah.

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And the short answer is I don't

think we have a good answer to it.

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Yeah.

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A few options have been presented, but I

don't even know if they're worth sharing.

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Yeah.

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Honestly, as I studied this

and I, I did some mild digging.

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I don't always get to do a

ton in the morning, but my.

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My results were unsatisfying

to say the least.

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At the end of the day, I'm gonna have

to say, and this is how I counsel

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my own heart, 'cause I'm a thinker.

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I like to fancy myself as

someone who thinks about things

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and tries to crack the nut.

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I'm gonna have to say to myself,

okay, if I have multiple numbers

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here, it's possible that multiple

tabulations are being done.

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There's more than one way to

skin the cat as a saint goes.

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And so I'm gonna say, okay, maybe

one is using one type of accounting

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method and one is using another.

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Or option two, there's

a textual issue here.

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There's a, there's a.

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Recording issue.

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And that doesn't in any way cause us to

lose faith in the manuscripts because

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ultimately the original manuscripts are

what we're gonna say are infallible and

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in errand the copies of the manuscripts

are where we can have some issues here.

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Thankfully, this is not an area where we.

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Our faith is resting upon the numbers.

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And I look at it like that.

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That's gonna be my posture.

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My hope God's gonna take care of this.

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I may not know how the numbers are being

pieced together, but either A, there are

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multiple ways of accounting for the same

numbers, or B, there's a textual issue.

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Either way, I'm okay with that.

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I.

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Yeah, and there's, we're probably

dealing, remember with probably I,

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rough and dirty somewhere between

four to 500 years between the writing

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of First and Second Samuel and the

writing of First and Second Chronicles.

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Remember Chronicles

being a post exilic book.

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And so there's quite a bit of time

that's passed between the actual.

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Happening of this event and when

the chronicler is recording it.

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And so it's amazing when you

think about that, that there is

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so much parallels to begin with,

that so much of the information

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it has been recorded accurately.

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And that's a testimony to the veracity

of scripture and the inspiration

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of scripture that, that it's the

spirit that's guiding them and

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carrying them along and doing this.

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We can look at some of

these things like that.

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And to your point, not

have our faith be shaken.

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Yeah.

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God has preserved it quite well.

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And the people that preserved

it, you have to think about it,

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these guys who are trying to carry

resources into their captivity.

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Yeah.

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These guys who are trying to, they're

trying to preserve the scriptures even as

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they're being attacked by foreign peoples.

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And they're suffering the land being

slaughtered and all these things.

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So I think it's enormously important

that we do see, to your point,

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that God has preserved his peoples.

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His people's records through the books.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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As we finish up chapter 24 in one

Chronicles 21 David is, this is

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a, some growth in David, I think,

because David doesn't wait for

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Nathan to come and confront him.

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He doesn't try to cover

up his sin or hide it.

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He immediately feels conviction and he

goes to the Lord and confesses and that

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is not like what he did with Bathsheba.

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And so there's some growth, there's some

sanctification it seems like here with

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David, but God is still gonna punish.

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And so God gives David these choices.

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David says, Lord, let me fall into

your hands for you are merciful.

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Don't let me fall into the hands of.

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Of men.

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And so a plague comes and wipes

out 70,000 of the people of Israel.

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So this is no small plague.

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This is quite an impact.

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And you gotta think about their families

and how devastating it would be for their

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families to lose their fathers, their

husbands, their sons in this plague.

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That was a result of

David taking this census.

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The final scene then it is is

even more poignant as the angel

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is there to come against the

city of Jerusalem to destroy it.

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And the Lord at that point,

relents and says, it's enough.

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Stay your hand.

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The Lord was by the threshing

floor of Aruna, the Jebe site and

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David had spoken with the Lord

and said, look, I have sinned.

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I've done wickedly, but the people

that you've entrusted to my care,

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they have and so please let your hand

be against me and not against them.

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And so David is really commendable in

the way that he responds to his sin.

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But we also have to feel the

weight of the fact that there

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is consequence for his sin.

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And 70,000 people lose their

life because of David's.

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Taking his eyes off of God and putting

it on his hope and men, and you say,

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but God ordained that it should happen.

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God incited him to do that.

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And yeah that's one of the

really difficult, hard, sticky

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things about how that works.

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And we've talked about this before.

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God is a hundred percent sovereign.

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We are a hundred percent

responsible for our actions.

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And here's another example of where

those two things work out together.

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David was gonna bear the consequences.

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The people were gonna bear the con

consequences for David's sin, even

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though God is the one who incited

or allowed Satan to incite David

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to do the thing in the first place.

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Yeah.

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And again, just to

reiterate here, that the.

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The census itself was not a sin, it

was the way that David approached it.

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And because he's king, we believe

in this concept of a federal head.

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And we see this concept played

out in the New Testament.

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So it's important to see this in

the same way that someone can suffer

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because of their leader's sin.

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Someone can benefit because of

their leader's righteousness.

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So in the same way that because of

David's sin that people suffered, we

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benefit because of Jesus' victory.

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We receive his mercy, his grace,

we receive his righteousness.

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We receive the blessings that come

because we're grafted into Christ.

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We are in Christ, as the scripture says.

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That's our union with Christ,

which changes the way that

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we are seen in God's eyes.

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So similarly here, you see

the inverse or the converse.

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I.

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David's sin leading to sin

falling out upon the people.

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So guilt is also upon them

because of their leader sin.

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You also see this with Adam when

Adam sins all of the human race sins,

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and they're found as sinners in him.

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This is Romans chapter five, but again,

we can't take issue with this because

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this is the very same process that gives

us the blessings that we have in Jesus.

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Yeah, the rest of chapter 24 David is

gonna construct an altar there at the

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threshing floor of Aruna at the J site.

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The, there's a variation there in

one Chronicles 21 Aruna iss name

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there is listed as Orin or Oron.

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And same person, just different

moniker, different name.

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And this is gonna be significant because

of what happens in one Chronicles 22,

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because after David ECTs the altar here in

one Chronicles 22, it's gonna be decided

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that this is gonna be the very spot

where the temple is going to be built.

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And so that's where the

Temple Mount is today.

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It traces all the way back to the

threshing for floor of Una, the Jebe site,

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which traces all the way back, even before

that time, to the very place called Mount

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Mariah, which is where where Abraham was

willing to offer up Isaac before the Lord.

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In fact, that is what we believe

is the place in locale of

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where the temple was originally

constructed, is above the very rock.

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That Isaac was laying upon

to be sacrificed to the Lord.

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Now, if you go to Israel today,

it's the dome of the rock.

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It's this Islamic shrine that's there.

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And they would say that this is the

rock, not where Isaac was offered,

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but where Ishmael was offered.

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And that's part of the variance

between us and the Islamic faith

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one among many variants there.

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But.

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That's what we're dealing with there.

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We're dealing with the Temple Mount,

and this is where it comes into being

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as far as the place where the centrality

of Israel's worship is gonna be from

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this time until its destruction.

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First under Nebuchadnezzar, but then

the temple is gonna be rebuilt, and

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then ultimately the destruction in 70

a d And since then, we haven't had a

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temple anymore there on the Temple Mount.

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Psalm chapter 30 is gonna get into

the dedication psalm for this temple

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that David is in one Chronicles

22 charging Solomon to build.

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David knows that he's not gonna be

the one second Samuel chapter seven

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address, that he's not gonna be

the one to build the house for God.

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But God promised David that one of his

sons would, and so David commissions

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Solomon to be the one to do that.

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And so in so doing, he is going to

prepare a lot of the materials and

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provide a lot of that to say, Solomon,

here's, I'm giving you everything

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that you need to do this, and Psalm.

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30.

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He not only provided the materials

to David, but also a song to be sung

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at the dedication of the temple.

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And so that's what we find

recorded for us in Psalm 30.

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So even though David wasn't there,

this was written to go on ahead of

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him, so to speak to be sung there

at the dedication of the the temple.

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And that's what we find

there in Psalm chapter 30.

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Lemme pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for your word.

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In its truthfulness, it's reliability.

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As we so often pray, even when we see

things where we have to say, okay, we

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don't know what the numbers discrepancy

is there, we can trust that you do.

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And that this is not something

that shakes our faith.

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That we see a common thread, a common

story from beginning to end of our

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hope and our need for Jesus Christ.

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And so we are so grateful for

scripture and how it points us

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to Jesus time and time again.

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Give us a fruitful time

in your word today.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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I don't know what that was, dude.

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Talk about sultry voices.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tuning again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See ya.

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Bye.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said